Speakur

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index case

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.53 in modern English

Syllables
in-dex -case
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The first documented case in a disease epidemic within a population or the first case of interest in an epidemiological investigation: the case of patient zero (the index patient).

Inflected Forms

index cases (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

proband index patient patient zero patient 0[Appendix:Glossary

Questions

What does index case mean?
The first documented case in a disease epidemic within a population or the first case of interest in an epidemiological investigation: the case of patient zero (the index patient).

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